Liam Hamilton, the DCD Media business development director, is joining STV as deputy director of content.

Hamilton will start his new job later this year, reporting to the STV director of content, Alan Clement, and with responsibility for development and expanding STV Productions' output. Recent STV Productions shows include Taggart and Antiques Road Trip.

Clements said: "I'm confident that Liam can help build on our recent successes in securing commissions and working in partnership with a wide range of broadcasters, both in the UK and overseas."

Hamilton is returning to the company where he began his broadcasting career in 1981 as a newsroom trainee.

In a varied career he went on to work for the ITV companies Border, Central and Granada, where he was launch producer and then editor of This Morning, and GMTV, as launch editor and executive producer.